“Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)” — René Descartes English Copy Share Image
“The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.” — René Descartes Destruction Copy Share Image
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)” — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts. — Rene Descartes Power Copy Share Image
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable — Rene Descartes Adventure Copy Share Image
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of… — Rene Descartes Acquisition Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it. — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say,… — René Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured,… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
“By intuition I mean, not the wavering assurance of the senses, or the deceitful judgment of a misconstructed imagination, but a conception,… — René Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Book Copy Share Image
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those… — Rene Descartes Good sense Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
“For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might… — René Descartes Knowledge Copy Share Image
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“But doubtless I did exist, if I persuaded myself of something. But there is some deceiver or other who is supremely powerful… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Apprehension Copy Share Image
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout… — Rene Descartes Age Copy Share Image
“...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.” — René Descartes Advice Copy Share Image
Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation — Rene Descartes Inspirational Copy Share Image
Its not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well :) — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature. — Rene Descartes God Copy Share Image
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